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I recently thought about a devious trick that involves setting the PAGER envionment variable to rev as a joke.
When I tried reading the man page for rev with man rev I then saw the man page in reverse ...

I'm on an embedded system (Zynq from Xilinx. It uses ARMv7, Cortex-A9), and running Linux. I need to ensure that no access to a certain physical memory range is ever made, either accidentally by the ...

I'd like to use the scroll wheel (xterm mouse escape codes) to scroll through man pages, like I can in emacs with xterm-mouse-mode. less doesn't seem to have support for that and short of recompiling ...

Is there a way to horizontally center emails when reading them in a larger terminal using mutt? I'm not interested in centered justification of the text in the email, but I am interested in forcing ...

I have a CLI app that produces lots of debug output and I have a really big need to search in the output. I'm using less for that but it freezes when I reach the last line with j or G. And it returns ...

git has a very nice feature for many of its commands: The output on an interactive terminal is passed to a pager by default, in such a way that it only keeps the pager open if there's more than one ...

Is there any case or reason to use "more" unix command instead of "less". As far as I see "less" is "better" in all senses, so does it mean that "more" is a command which has no reason to be used when ...

Is there any way to make less program repeat first line (or first 2 lines) on every displayed page?
Is there any other pager program which can do this?
This would be a killer-app for database table ...

I'm sure there used to be an option in less which allowed you to page onto the next file after you reached the end of the current file, so you could just keep *space*ing through a bunch of short files ...

In short, I'm in an effort to replace less with vim (vimpager). I have settings for scripts to spit out colors (and bold and everything nice) whenever they can. less understands the color codes and ...

To use Vim as a pager for man I have
export MANPAGER="/usr/share/vim/vim73/macros/manpager.sh"
in my profile. Now man pages look very good with colors and stuff. However, when trying man ascii as a ...

I'm logged into an IP Phone running MontaVista with a very stripped down BusyBox binary (by stripped down, I mean the OEM has removed almost all of its functionality, except the basics like cat, ls ...

On a Debian system, one can type pager in order to use whatever pager program happens to be default/available. By default, less is used, and if not available, the lesser more gets to do the job. Is ...